{"id":202703,"date":"2020-02-19T08:12:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T08:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=202703"},"modified":"2020-02-22T07:08:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T07:08:14","slug":"coronavirus-was-eerily-predicted-in-a-1981-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=202703","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Was Eerily Predicted in a 1981 Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 1981 novel \u201cThe Eyes of Darkness\u201d by Dean Koontz talks about a deadly virus used as a biological weapon named Wuhan-400. The epicenter of real-life Coronavirus is \u2026 Wuhan, China. And the eerie similarities do not end there.<\/h4>\n

Vigilant Citizen \u2013 Feb 18, 2020<\/h1>\n

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Dean Koontz is a prolific author who wrote 105 novels, including several NY Times Best Sellers. He sold over 450 million copies worldwide and 17 books were adapted for cinema.<\/h5>\n
Throughout his career, Koontz wrote under several pen names including David Axton, Deanna Dwyer, K.R Dwyer, Brian Coffey, and Leigh Nichols. It is with this last pen name that Koontz wrote the novel The Eyes of Darkness<\/em> in 1981 \u2013 a \u201csuspense thriller\u201d that is causing even more \u201csuspense thriller\u201d nearly 40 years after its original publication.<\/h5>\n
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The first edition of The Eyes of Darkness. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The reason for the resurgence in popularity for this forgotten novel? It appears to have predicted with chilling accuracy the outbreak of Coronavirus from Wuhan, China.<\/h5>\n
The plot revolves around a mother who attempts to find out what happened to her son after he mysteriously disappeared on a camping trip. It turns out that the boy is held in China \u2013 more specifically in Wuhan, the site of a deadly virus outbreak. Here is the passage that is raising eyebrows across the web:<\/h5>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First published nearly forty years ago, Dean Koontz\u2019s suspense thriller the \u201cEyes of Darkness\u201d seems to foreshadow current events in Wuhan <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Health","category-Predictions_from_the_past_or_for_the_future"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202708,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202703\/revisions\/202708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}